syötät

Syötät is the second-person singular present tense form of the Finnish verb syöttää, meaning to feed or to provide with food or input. The verb syöttää is transitive and used to describe causing someone or something to receive nourishment, or more broadly to supply data, information, or other input to a system. Syötät specifically denotes that you (the listener or reader) are performing the feeding action in the present time.

Grammatical notes: Syötät is the indicative mood, active voice, and present tense form used with the subject sinä (you). In constructions with a recipient, the recipient is typically expressed in the allative case (for example kissalle, lapselle), while the thing being fed is placed in the partitive or other appropriate object case (for example ruokaa).

Usage considerations: The sense of feeding can be literal (feeding a person or animal) or figurative (inputting data or information into a system). In everyday Finnish, syöttää and its forms are common when talking about giving food or supplying resources, as well as in computing or data-entry contexts.

Examples:

- Sinä syötät kissalle ruokaa. (You feed the cat food.)

- Hän syöttää lapselle lusikallisen puuroa. (He/She feeds the child a spoonful of porridge.)

- Tietokone syöttää ohjelmaan uusia tietoja. (The computer inputs new data into the program.)

Etymology and note: The form derives from the verb syöttää, which stems from the noun syöttö meaning feeding or input. A common confusion is with syöt, the second-person singular form of syödä, which means “you eat,” a different verb with a distinct meaning.